Monitoring Microservices

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Argues monitoring must shift primary key from host to service and adopts RED: rate error duration as the three service metrics, shows dashboards built with Prometheus and Grafana, and demonstrates a platform approach that instruments load‑balancers so teams need not change binaries. Presents Weave Scope (v0.14), an open source Go tool that auto-discovers topology by joining conntrack and /proc data, and demos a ptrace prototype for distributed tracing that works without app changes but is currently too slow for production.

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1. 0:00Microservices monitoring intro
2. 1:08Traditional monolith monitoring
3. 3:58RED method for SLIs
4. 7:26Visualizing microservices
5. 18:23Distributed tracing
6. 28:19Monitoring techniques summary
7. 29:21Q&A

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